Jesus taught his disciples and listeners to be good. That matches up with basically every other religion out there. However, Jesus's moral teachings, at least on the sermon on the mount, was more about how to treat other.
Jesus taught that even if someone is terrible to you, to treat them with kindness and goodness. This does in a way follow with the basics of Zoroastrian morals, however Zoroatrian is never this specific.
Confucius also valued goodness, but not to everybody. the lower classes were supposed to have more respect to the higher classes, or the lower in a specific relationship have more respect for the higher in a specific relationship. So like women, usually the lower in most relationship, are stuck with nothing.
Daoist morals are more about detachment. So in a way, if a daoist gets wronged, like the christian, the daoist wouldn't actively get revenge. But for the daoist it is more about not caring and less about being good.
Buddhists, although unlike christians in many ways, are like Christians in the way that they strive to do good, so that they in turn eventually get that good returned to them. The only difference is that Christians believe that good will come in the form of heaven after death, and Buddists believe that it will come back because of Karma.
Hindus are almost completely different from Christians. All a hindu was required to do was to follow caste rules. If your caste required you to be good, then that was great, if it didn't that was good too. Christians believed no matter who you are, you have to be good.
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